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Cabinet Conclusions and Memoranda 1915-77
Funded by the JISC, this project puts online the papers (memoranda) circulated for discussion in Cabinet during all the major events of the 20th Century, and the official minutes (conclusions) of these meetings. A view from the cockpit of history.
ADM 196 Royal Naval Officers Service Records 1756-1918
Officers' records giving dates of entry into and discharge from the service. They contain such information as dates of birth, rank, seniority, date of appointment, orders and commissions, awards, distinctions, examinations etc. and include particulars of Royal Marine Officers.
BT 389 Merchant Shipping Movement Cards 1939-46
The cards give the name of a ship and details of its movements, namely, the ports at which it docked, and passage between ports. During World War II, masters of merchant ships were ordered not to record the port details of their voyage in case this information got into enemy hands. The Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen held these details.
ADM 159 Royal Marines: Registers of Service 1842-1918
These registers of Royal Marines' service contain physical descriptions of Marines at the time of re-engagement and discharge together with full details of service.
AIR 76 RAF Officers Service Records 1914-1918
Service details for officers of the Royal Air Force (RAF), mainly for men discharged before 1920. Although the records were created from April 1918 upon the inception of the RAF they include details of earlier wartime service. The RAF was the world's first independent military air arm and by the end of the First World War it had become the largest with over 27,000 officers and 250,000 other ranks as compared with 300 officers and 1700 other ranks in British air personnel at the start of the war. However, by the end of 1919 26,000 of the 27,000 officers had been discharged and it is largely their service details that are held in this series.
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